We need to confront the life-killing stereotype that says we're all about suffering. We need to bear witness to our pleasures.

Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.

First time I ever put pen to paper, I had one goal – to build something no one had ever thought of before.

When there is propaganda, we are no longer able to evaluate certain questions, or even to discuss them

Art should look like art, trees and flowers and people, not weird shapes and splotches of color all smeared together.

The words are in my own internal language, and mean more than I could ever explain.

Have you ever stopped to think how much unhappiness and downright cruelty are laid to the loving kindness of the Lord? And always by His most ardent followers, it seems.

We don't use the term 'working class' here because it's a taboo term. You're supposed to say 'middle class,' because it helps diminish the understanding that there's a class war going on.

Greatness is not how you feel, it's how you make others feel.

Every one, more or less, loves Power, yet those who most wish for it are seldom the fittest to be trusted with it.

You are who you go to lunch with! Break bread with cool and you will become more cool. Conversely: break bread with dull and well, you can figure it out.